That's right, spanking your children is bad while America is full of spoiled rotten kids. Let's not discipline the children and buy them cell phones, iPods, video games, Abercrombie & Fitch clothing, and expensive sneakers.
Spanking is bad but NRA is good. Spanking is bad but violence in movies is embraced. Spanking is bad but death penalty is supported. Spanking is bad but it's OK to invade a country and shove democracy down their throat.
Is it possible that all these are connected? Are there any relations at all of how American adults think and view the world to how they were raised? Maybe or maybe not. I too, could make an extreme generalization but is it the most efficient way to look at the issue?
It's almost pointless to bring up how some adults grew up to be the upstanding citizens with or without getting spanked as children. There are so many viable aspects that come into play in deciding whether spanking is a good tool for parents to discipline their children. Spanking may work in some countries and may fail miserably in the other.
Then there is the aspect of defining spanking. How do you differentiate between spanking, hitting, smacking, whipping, etc? And what if there is a formal rule in place at schools where children already know that if they do certain things then there would get some spanking?
And what about the motive behind spanking? What if the parents spank, not out of anger, but just as a rule, a form of disciplinary/correction?
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NRA = Violence are you daft man?
Though it may look that way, I don’t think I equated NRA to violence. I think it’s more of the American culture where people don’t think twice about guns and violent movies but make a big deal about spanking.
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